We can sign 2 more foreign players as it stands right now. After that, any more signings would have to be âhomegrownâ.
Premier League Rules
Source: PL Website (stolen from Reddit)
A squad can contain no more than 17 players who do not fulfil "Home Grown Player" criteria.
The remainder of the squad, up to a total of 25 players, must be home grown.
A "Home-Grown Player" means a player who, irrespective of nationality or age, has been registered with any club affiliated to The Football Association or the Football Association of Wales for a period, continuous or not, of three entire seasons, or 36 months, before his 21st birthday (or the end of the season during which he turns 21).
If you don't have a Home-Grown Player, you can simply begin the season with 17 foreign players. If you want more players on your squad, up to a maximum of 25, they need to be home grown. So it is not a strict rule but given the number of matches and expected injuries, it is fair to expect each team will wish to utilize the 25-player limit by filling the squad with 8 home-grown players.
CL/EL/ECL Rules
European competitions have a stricter version of this rule. You can read the exact wording here at official UEFA site. I will paraphrase it below.
Maximum Squad Size: 25
Minimum Club-Trained players: 4
Minimum Association-Trained players: 8
Once again, there is no strict requirement. Just roll up with 17 foreign players, leave the other spots blank and the club is free to participate in the competition. The rules here make a distinction between "Club-Trained" and "Association-Trained" players.
Association-Trained players are Home-Grown players as above(with the exception that Welsh players no longer count as Association-Trained unless they played under FA pyramid; because Wales has a different Association; this exception shouldn't matter to top clubs anyway).
Club-Trained is the same definition as Home-Grown except the player had to spend their formative years at the specific club. This is to encourage academy investment and use, and mitigate top clubs just buying Association-Trained players and calling it a day.
Exceptions
Each competition further has exceptions on adding youngsters.
PL allows registering unlimited number of U-21 players, i.e. they do not take a spot on the squad list if they were born on or after January 1, 2002 (for season starting 2023)
CL/EL/ECL allows registering unlimited number of U-21 players IF they have been at the club for at least 2 years, starting from their 15th birthday.
LFC Squad
Foreign Player
1. Alisson
2. Adrian
3. van Dijk
4. Konate
5. Matip
6. Robertson
7. Tsimikas
8. Fabinho
9. Thiago
10. MacAllister
11. Jota
12. Gakpo
13. Diaz
14. Nunez
15. Salah
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17.
Club-Trained (also Home-Grown) Player
1. Trent
2. Joe
3. Kelleher
4. Jones
Association-Trained (also Home-Grown) Player
1. Hendo
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4.
Special Cases
Calvin Ramsay
Will not take a spot for next season in PL; however needs to be registered for UEFA as foreign-player
Will take a foreign-player spot in PL 2024/25 and beyond due to PL definition of season being "from the day the summer transfer window closes to the last league match of the season" (Source: PL Handbook) ; Will also take a foreign player slot for UEFA
Will qualify as club-trained player in CL/EL/ECL 2025/26 & beyond if PL 2025/26 starts in August due to UEFA definition saying "the season immediately following his 21st birthday may be counted if his birthday is on or after 1 July (winter championships) or 1 January (summer championships) but before the first match of the relevant national championship." (Ramsay's birthday is July 31; rule source is UEFA document)
Harvey Elliott
Qualifies as Club-Trained(and Home-Grown) starting this summer for both PL and UEFA.
Does not need to be registered on either list for next season since he is still U-21
Stefan Bajcetic
Qualifies as Club-Trained(and Home-Grown) starting this summer for both PL and UEFA.
Does not need to be registered on either list for next season since he is still U-21
Fabio Carvalho
Continues to qualify as Association-Trained(and Home-Grown) as usual
Does not need to be registered on either list for next season since he is still U-21
Will never qualify as Club-Trained in the future due to being signed a year late
Transfer Options
Current Squad Size: 20 (+2 in Elliott/Bajcetic who are club-trained but do not need to be registered for next season; +1 in Ramsay who is a complicated case; not counting Carvalho since it seems he is set to leave)
Foreign Spots available: 2 (if 2 new foreign signings do come in, Ramsay cannot be registered for Europe)
Homegrown spots: 6 club-trained players in Trent/Curtis/Kelleher/Joe/Harvey/Bajcetic starting from summer 2024 + 1 homegrown player in Hendo. Can always be supplemented with academy players if someone steps up to senior squad(or the old reliable in Nat and Rhys if they stay)
Contracts expiring in 2024: Adrian, Matip, Thiago
Contracts expiring in 2025: Trent, Salah, VVD, Hendo, Tsimikas, Nat Phillips
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